Meet Framingham's own 'Tom Sawyer,' author C.D. Peterson
As he walked to his favorite fishing hole, his spotted pointer by his side and stick pole in hand, a young C.D. Peterson met a writer for Ford Times magazine. It was the early 1940s, and the resulting...
View ArticleMusic columnist's novel springs from his personal story with anorexia
An award-winning music critic for the MetroWest Daily News, Boston TAB, Boston Globe, Billboard and other publications, Ken Capobianco immersed himself for more than two decades in rock culture where...
View ArticleBearing witness: Violent tragedies infect Sudbury poet's new works
SUDBURY - How can poets respond to the constant news of school shootings, terrorist attacks and atrocities against women around the world?Rather than turn away, Helen Marie Casey wrote “Zero Degrees,”...
View ArticleHeed the Bard's lessons on politics, says Harvard professor
Harvard University professor Stephen Greenblatt saw a sign. Or, more accurately, he didn’t.As the 2016 presidential election was stumbling toward the finish line, the pollsters, number crunchers and...
View ArticleReview: Seymour Hersh turns his pen on his own life in entertaining memoir
From the infamous My Lai massacre in Southeast Asia to Watergate. From Jack Kennedy's administration to the demise of Osama bin Laden. Seymour M. Hersh has uncompromisingly witnessed these and other...
View ArticleFSU professor emerita pens New England story
“My mother is leaving home for the first time in her eighty years of life.” From this opening line you know that Catherine McLaughlin’s searing debut novel Blue Collars is about resilient personalities...
View ArticleIn memoir, Jose Antonio Vargas takes a personal look at immigration
Our humanity is central to the immigration controversy. Jose Antonio Vargas’s new book, “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” (HarperCollins, September 18, 2018, 256 pages) looks deep into...
View ArticleIn '12,' local authors tackle Tom Brady's sweet revenge
It was a comeback that legends are made of.That is, if its architect wasn't the one called The Greatest of All Time. Tom Brady leading the New England Patriots back from a seemingly insurmountable 28-3...
View ArticleNew book gives voice to the 'strong women of Southie'
At a time when women are speaking up about painful, personal experiences, the book “Women of Southie” is particularly timely.Subtitled “Finding Resilience During Whitey Bulger’s Infamous Reign,” the...
View ArticleGhost writer: Paranormal expert Tim Weisberg shares a cauldron of spooky...
Even skeptics might find themselves believing in ghosts at this time of year – or at least interested in hearing from someone who does.Tim Weisberg, who hosts the radio program “Spooky Southcoast,”...
View ArticleGEORGE'S GENIUS: Philbrick's ‘In the Hurricane’s Eye’ highlights Washington’s...
Nathaniel Philbrick has come full circle with his latest book “In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory of Yorktown.” The nation’s first commander-in-chief takes center...
View Article10 of the coolest libraries in America
February is National Library Lover's Month, and there are so many reasons to love your local libraries.They provide much-needed services to the communities they serve, you've got a world of knowledge...
View ArticleThis Texas principal reads children's books live on Facebook for her students
Studies show reading at home directly correlates to children's success at school. Children who are read to frequently are more likely to recognize letters of the alphabet, count to 20 or higher, write...
View ArticleBFF's: In 'Solid Seasons,' Walden Woods curator explores Thoreau and...
LINCOLN - The deep and affirming bond between Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson comes alive once again in “Solid Seasons,” Jeffrey S. Cramer's revelatory new book about New England's most...
View ArticleQ&A: Bruce Springsteen photographer Barry Schneier presents in Holliston...
A quick flip through a new coffee table book by Holliston resident Barry Schneier, “Bruce Springsteen: Rock and Roll Future,” will give you an appreciation of some very cool photos Schneier shot on a...
View ArticleBloomsday explained: You've got a week to read James Joyce's massive 'Ulysses'
This June 16 is the 115th anniversary of "Bloomsday" (June 16, 1904), that fictional day in the groundbreaking novel "Ulysses" by Irish writer Jame Joyce (1882-1941). Written between 1914-1922, with...
View ArticleBook review: Baseball's steroid scandal overshadows Selig's memoir
“For The Good Of The Game – The Inside Story Of the Surprising and Dramatic Transformation of Major League Baseball," by Bud Selig with Phil Rogers. William Morrow, 311 pages. $28.99.
View ArticleBooksmart column: 3 novels show compassion amid the chaos
The three novels below focus on a period of human history where compassion was at once both gravely lacking and mercifully abundant.
View ArticleThriller reviews: Brains, brawn, heart — 8 books that deliver
C.J. Box has never lacked in talent for writing rugged frontier-type heroes, like Joe Pickett and Nate Romanowski, who’ve helped define the post-modern Western. His Cassie Dewell character is all that...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: 'The Kennedy Debutante' by Kerri Maher
TL;DR: You don’t need to know the Kennedys to love Kick’s story as it is told in "The Kennedy Debutante" by Kerri Maher. In fact you could hate politics, Democrats, or the myth of a powerful family and...
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